Do you read the terms of service of an application you are using? Well, most of us do not. But you might want to start now, especially if you are using Snapchat. Recently, the app updated its Terms of Service that made its users freak out, just a little bit. What are the changes of? Some Snapchat users think that the update would give the company a permission to read and hang on to their private messages, broadcast them publicly or...

Popular photo-sharing service Instagram lost a quarter of its total users worldwide, at least according to speculations of widely distributed media reports. When Instagram revealed an updated terms of service (ToS) on December 17, it almost automatically set off discontent users who squawked about a new proposed policy that will allow the company to sell user information, such as usernames and images, for advertisements. The modified...

An American man has filed a class-action lawsuit against Sony in an ironic twist after the Japanese digital entertainment giant has forbid users of its PlayStation Network to file just this type of lawsuit. The news comes via Gamespot which says that a Californian man has filed a class-action suit in his name and on behalf of all PlayStation 3 owners who purchased the PS3 and agreed to the PlayStation Network terms before the change...

A Facebook scam described by experts as the cleverest to date convinces members to provide their passwords and financial information by charging them with violations of the website’s terms of service, and threatening to delete their accounts. The phishing scam comes in the form of an email purporting to be from Facebook, and is convincing because it mimics security procedures used by many websites to prevent bad behavior...

One of the biggest challenges faced by Google’s newest social networking offering, Google +, is that in order to attract members away from the current King of social media, users must bring all of their contact information into Google +, a potentially time consuming task, especially for those who take pride in their ever growing number of “Facebook Friends”. Google has released a Chrome extension named “Facebook Friend Exporter” that...